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Ivana Trump later dismissed the claims she was raped and said she had been 'violated'

One night he comes in - in a rage - and starts pulling Ivana’s hair

Author Harry Hurt III

She was later slapped with a gagging order in 1993.

Now allegations the surrounding the incident have been discussed by author Harry Hurt III, who describes the moment Trump allegedly attacked Ivana in his 1993 book Lost Tycoon: The Many Lives of Donald J. Trump.

He said: “One night he comes in - in a rage - and starts pulling Ivana’s hair. Then according to her sworn deposition testimony ‘he raped me’.

“At this point she is terrified, runs out of the room, runs down the hall to her mother’s room and locks the door behind her. She stays up crying all night.

“The next morning, again according to her testimony, she comes creeping out and sees him and he goes ‘did it hurt?’”

She later clarified her words in a foreword to the book saying: “On one occasion during 1989, Mr Trump and I had martial relations in which he behaved very differently toward me than he had during our marriage.

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Ivana Trump was slapped with a gagging order in 1993

“As a woman I felt violated, as the love and tenderness, which he normally exhibited towards me was absent. I referred to this as ‘rape’ , but I do not want my words to be interpreted in a literal or criminal sense.”